Shanghai (AFP) – Rapacious middlemen and coaches with forged or few qualifications are trying their luck in China’s fast-growing grassroots football, imperilling its ambitions to become a major force in the sport, insiders warn.
At the behest of football-fan President Xi Jinping, for whom it is a soft-power tool, the world’s second-biggest economy is throwing resources at the game domestically.
Central to that is getting more youngsters to play at schools, clubs and academies. The education min... Tags: China, Spain, Sport, Soccer, Xi Jinping, Shanghai, Uefa, Toulouse, Castro, Shenzhen, Afp, Shanghai SIPG, Xie, SIPG, Wu Lei, Chinese Super League CSL

Scalar Capital is a San Francisco-based hedge fund company specializing in crypto assets. In fact, it is one of roughly 300 “crypto” funds that have sprung up in the last year or so.
That kind of market zaniness makes it difficult to carve out a niche, but S calar has a bit an edge on this front, thanks to its founders’ backgrounds. Linda Xie, who studied economics at UC San Diego, spent a couple of years out of college as a portfolio risk analyst with the insurance giant AIG before joining Coi... Tags: TC, San Francisco, Tech, Aig, Jordan, Coinbase, Thomson Reuters, Carnegie Mellon, Chris Dixon, UC San Diego, Xie, Overstock, Scalar, Monero, Fred Ehrsam, Linda Xie

The Chinese government is working to combine its 170+ million security cameras with artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to create a vast surveillance state.
The government isn't quiet about its efforts, often playing up technological successes in state media to convince the populace of its impressive capabilities.
But recent reports suggest that the technology is not as ubiquitous or useful as the government wants its citizens to believe.
For example, an exec at one of th... Tags: Amazon, London, China, US, Trends, Bbc, Beijing, Alibaba, The Times, Skynet, The New York Times, China Daily, Don, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Xie

The Chinese government is working to combine its 170+ million security cameras with artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to create a vast surveillance state.
The government isn't quiet about its efforts, often playing up technological successes in state media to convince the populace of its impressive capabilities.
But recent reports suggest that the technology is not as ubiquitous or useful as the government wants its citizens to believe.
For example, an exec at one of th... Tags: Amazon, China, US, Trends, Bbc, Beijing, Alibaba, The Times, Skynet, The New York Times, China Daily, Don, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Xie, Henan

Xie has just made her music debut into the world. She’s a Chinese-American producer, singer, and multimedia artist based in LA that specializes in electronic indie music. Her debut track is titled “Just Like Me,” and we have… (in post Xie, “Just Like Me” from Impose. More by this artist at ) Tags: Music, La, Xie

President Donald Trump still hasn’t made up his mind on whether he’ll keep the United States part of the 2015 Paris agreement, even though everyone from the Vatican to ExxonMobil have called for America to stick with the deal. But China, Canada, and the European Union (EU) aren’t going to sit around and wait for him to make his decision. They’ve formed a pact for continued climate action regardless of where the Trump administration stands.
Officials from the two countries and the EU met in Ber... Tags: Design, China, Berlin, America, ExxonMobil, Eu, Bloomberg, United States, Paris, Vatican, Donald Trump, Trump, European Union EU, McKenna, Catherine McKenna, Xie

BEIJING (AP) — Human rights lawyer Xie Yang has told a Chinese court that he wasn’t forced into confessing to crimes after being detained in a large government crackdown on the country’s legal professionals. The Intermediate People’s Court in Changsha posted a brief video on social media in which Xie was asked that question as […] Tags: News, Beijing, Xie, Changsha, Nation & World, Intermediate People s Court, Xie Yang

BEIJING (AP) — A court in central China is trying human rights lawyer Xie Yang in one of several cases in which the country’s legal professionals are accused of undermining the system. Xie’s trial opened Monday in the Intermediate People’s Court in Changsha, which said on social media that Xie faces charges of inciting subversion […] Tags: News, China, Beijing, Xie, Changsha, Nation & World, Intermediate People s Court, Xie Yang

In the days just before the election, I believed we were on the cusp of meaningful action to protect a livable climate. So many indicators of progress suggested it: the quick ratification of the Paris Climate Accord, the surge in new renewable energy, the ten Republican Members of Congress publicly supporting action to fight climate change and joining with ten Democrats to form the Climate Solutions Caucus, the outpouring of public support for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. New people ... Tags: News, Congress, Berlin Wall, Paris, Epa, State Department, Huffington Post, Exxon, Trump, Xie, Climate Solutions Caucus, Dakota Access Pipeline

A billion-dollar deal with Alibaba is just the latest incident in which the International Olympic Committee appears to be violating its own principlesSometimes when they interrogated Xie Yang they sat him on top of a stack of plastic stools. And then, between threats to turn him into an “invalid”, they kicked, punched and head-butted him, blew cigarette smoke in his face and suggested that his wife had better take care when driving. “If you move, we can consider that you attacked a police office... Tags: China, Sport, World news, Asia Pacific, Alibaba, Ioc, International Olympic Committee, Sport politics, Sean Ingle, Xie

Long-running retrial ends with Sydney man convicted of bludgeoning wife’s relatives at their North Epping homeRobert Xie has been found guilty of murdering five members of his wife’s family at their North Epping home in July 2009.Xie, 53, was convicted of using a hammer-like object to inflict horrific head injuries on his newsagent brother-in-law Min Lin, 45; his wife Lily Lin, 43; her sister Irene, 39; and the Lins’ two sons, Henry, 12, and Terry, nine. Continue reading... Tags: Australia news, New South Wales, Sydney, Crime - Australia, Terry, Henry, Lily Lin, Irene, Lin, Xie, Lins

With the shift to the cloud in full swing, along with the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the reams of information its "gadgets" collect, the need for security solutions seems obvious. So, why did FireEye Inc (NASDAQ: FEYE) have such a dismal 2016 and Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) merely a so-so year?Fortinet CEO Ken Xie said the tough 2016 security market was because of "extended sales cycles" and "a moderated spending environment." Xie could have added that competition from big hitte... Tags: Finance, Cisco, Fortinet, Xie, FireEye Inc, Fortinet Inc, Ken Xie, Technology and Telecom, Tim Brugger, FEYE, FTNT

Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded.
And the chances of Donald Trump's family and fortune surviving climate change are small, dwindling daily and irreversibly.
Saving BUB, Beautiful Unique Biodiversity, as in these Crested Guineafowl found in Cameroon, is another reason to preserve carbon storing forests. Source pixdaus.com
Forests: the cheapest way to store carbon
Unleashing More Climate Change, Destroying His Last Home, for Palm Oil? Chimpanzees now number a f... Tags: Utah, Florida, UK, New York, News, Greece, Minneapolis, Obama, Congress, Indonesia, California, China, Southeast Asia, India, Boko Haram, Nigeria

BEIJING, Nov 1 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday rejected a plan by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to back out of a global climate change pact, saying a wise political leader should make policy in line with global trends, a rare comment on a foreign election.
The world is moving towards balancing environmental protection and economic growth, China ’s top climate change negotiator told reporters, in response to a query on how China would work with a Trump administration ... Tags: News, China, Beijing, Donald Trump, Huffington Post, Marrakesh, Trump, Annum Masroor, Reuters China, Xie, Xie Zhenhua, Clarence Fernandez, Sue Lin Wong

For the past 16 years, Xie, 49, has been making serious money charging people all over China to punch his stomach as hard as they can, claiming that he feels no pain there.
(Thanks to Dave N.) Tags: China, Xie

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have created the first heat-reactive polymer material that can not only remember its current shape but also memorize new ones. The material—which currently requires high temperatures to change shape and reset its memory—could lead to a new generation of reusable self-folding materials that could be useful for everything from medical implants to shape-shifting electronics (abstract). The new substance has transition temperatures of 70C and 130C for elasticity and ... Tags: Xie